Re: database market share 2003
Off-topic banter under the 'database market share 2003' subject. Obnoxio The Clown, nobody, Andrew Hamm and Joel Garry traded jokes about Ferraris, towing boats, Lamborghinis, Corvettes and diesel engines. No Informix content.
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nobody said: > Yeah but can you tow that boat trailer? Only a complete idiot would want to tow a boat behind a Ferrari. :o) > And does it run on diesel? Go wash your mouth out with soap, young man. ... Er, old man. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html sending to informix-list
Ah my old friend clown... Only you would want to waste your money on a fancy high performance car, only to be constantly stuck in trafic on roads where a minor pot hole will cause $$ damage to your facy ride. ;-) I'd rather buy a case(s) of single malt, and have a more practicle ride or just take a cab. Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > nobody said: > >>Yeah but can you tow that boat trailer? > > > Only a complete idiot would want to tow a boat behind a Ferrari. :o) > > >>And does it run on diesel? > > > Go wash your mouth out with soap, young man. ... Er, old man. >
nobody wrote: > Ah my old friend clown... > > Only you would want to waste your money on a fancy high performance > car, only to be constantly stuck in trafic on roads where a minor pot > hole will cause $$ damage to your facy ride. > > ;-) > > I'd rather buy a case(s) of single malt, and have a more practicle > ride or just take a cab. I'm with the clown on this one. I'll drag-race him thru the Alps in a Gallardo any day. With the E-gear sequential no less - i read it's one of the few sequentials not to be spat on. Any sponsors?
"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message news:<ca4mj4$c87$1@news.xmission.com>... > nobody said: > > Yeah but can you tow that boat trailer? > > Only a complete idiot would want to tow a boat behind a Ferrari. :o) Depends on the boat, depends on the Ferrari. Several of the '60's and 70's big front-engineed beasties could easily be used for a small boat, particularly the 400. And of course, you could tow your Barchetta :-) (Barchetta means 'little boat' in Italian, and has been the model designation for several small two-seater Ferraris, as well as other brands - my friend had a '49 similar to this http://www.bilavefur.com/myndasafn/Ferrari/1950%20Ferrari%20275S%20-%20340MM%20fsv.jpg with a '62 Lusso V12). Some Corvettes have been successfully used to tow boats, the most well-known being a ZR1 towing a ZR1-engined boat. My first Vette (a '63) had been used for a similar purpose by some drag-boat racer in Washington State. There were some marine hop-ups in the engine (cam and pistons). It was scary fast when not being used to tow. Having a tow hitch _was_ very useful when moving twice a year in college. > > > And does it run on diesel? > > Go wash your mouth out with soap, young man. ... Er, old man. I hate diesel, mostly because the high-sulphur crud sold in the US combined with generally poor maintenance and some smog exemptions make it a daily punch-in-the-nose for me. But I recognize that they tend to be very high torque engines, and in fact there are several being developed for serious racing programs, and several manufacturers are showing hipo prototypes. http://eng.ovsem.com/user/daimlr/2.shtml search for C-111-11 - during the '70s! So watch those similes. jg -- @home.com is bogus. http://wasarrested.com/uses.asp